Comment on Encrypted home partition doesn't decrypt on boot

TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fresh new installation, but I can mount the home partition manually and continue booting.

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  • TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Maybe try entering the password during that 1.5 minutes?

    My thought process is that maybe it does print a prompt, but it does so while the boot process messages are going, and so the prompt just kindof gets lost somewhere in the scrollback buffer. But since it is (or rather if it is) waiting for input, it might work fine if you just enter the password.

    If as you type, it doesn’t echo what you’re typing, I’d say that’s at least a bit of evidence that my hunch is right.

    If that doesn’t do it for you, maybe share what distro you’re using, as well as the contents of your /etc/crypttab.

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    • DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s the first thing I tried! No effect at all. Even when I enter a wrong password, nothing happens. It doesn’t echo, but I think it wouldn’t echo anyways.

      Also, there’s not enough text that comes after decrypting the root for anything to get lost in the scrollback buffer.

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    • burgersc12@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The post says Debian 13

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      • TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Wow. I swear I reread the post like 5 times looking for that info. Thanks.

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